The E-Sylum: Volume 6, Number 48, November 9, 2003, Article 4
SO WHERE ARE THOSE DEUTSCHMARK COINS?
"With kindest regards from Stuttgart," Ralf Böpple writes:
"To the subject of the nostalgic Germans, which has been
commented on in various newspapers over here, there is
one doubt I have about the comparison of the number of
coins in circulation (49 billion pieces) and still outstanding
(25 billion pieces). Nobody I know or have spoken to set
aside a considerable amount of deutschmark coins, while
the lines at the Bundesbank branches with people handing
in old coins and currency were enormous in the first months.
So I really wonder where the 25 billion coins in discussion
might be. The biggest part should be the millions and millions
of commemorative coins and mint sets that were issued
during the deutschmark decades. Or somebody out there is
hoarding a very, very big treasure... "